Head of the Analytical Division, Formulation R&D delivery, Gedeon Richter

PROJECT PRESENTATIONS BY THE AWARD WINNERS

The CEE Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Excellence Award has been established to honour, recognise and promote outstanding manufacturing excellence solutions in the rapidly growing region of CEE. Manufacturers as well as solution providers were welcome to apply with their most innovative projects and methods implemented in the region. The winners have the opportunity to present their projects at PHARM Connect 2018.

Applications should be submitted by the 31st of January 2018 and will be assessed by our highly renowned jury.

Site visit to Meditop Pharmaceutical - The Winner of the 3rd CEE Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Excellence Award in 2017

Participants of PHARM Connect 2018 can learn more about the award winning innovation and visit the Meditop Pharmaceutical plant near Budapest. It is limited for 30 delegates only and available on a complimentary, first-come, first-served basis at 15:00 on 12th March.

Meditop Pharmaceutical Ltd. as a middle size company develops and manufactures its own products and offers services as a Contract Manufacturing Organisation to produce solid dosage forms in flexible manner and to provide support in development and manufacturing of pharmaceutical and nutraceutical products suffering with special sensitivity.

Meditop Pharmaceutical developed an innovative approach to improve film coating efficiency with developing and applying of a continuous film coater for which they received the 3rd CEE Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Excellence Award in 2017. With the innovation they:

• Successfully developed a method to coat soft tablets with high quality,

• Managed to coat heat sensitive actives without degradation,

• Saved considerable time and energy, and

• Obtained flexible and fast change-over and batch size change.

TRANSFER: The bus will leave in front of the CORINTHIA Hotel at 14:00 on 12th March and will return after the visit at approximately 18:00.

POST-EVENT PROGRAMME | 14th March 2018

Site visit to the Research Centre for Natural Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA TTK)

The congress provides the opportunity to visit the Research Centre for Natural Sciences at the Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA TTK) in Budapest; this is limited for 60 delegates only and available on a complimentary, first-come, first-served basis at 17:00 on 14th March. The MTA Research Centre for Natural Sciences carries out multidisciplinary research in natural sciences.

Priorities are given to the following disciplines:

• Materials- and environmental chemistry

• Cognitive neuroscience and psychology

The visit will start with a short, introductory presentation about the MTA TTK. Afterwards, the delegates will have the opportunity to choose a tour to the two research institutes:

Materials- and environmental chemistry

Research of discovery and experimental development in some key areas of materials- and environmental science, with special emphasis on chemical aspects thereof. Exploratory research in the field of nanoscale functional materials and application of the results in integrated nano/micro systems.

Cognitive neuroscience and psychology

Research of discovery and applications in experimental psychology, human-, developmental and comparative psychophysiology, social development psychology, social psychology and cultural psychology.

TRANSFER: The bus will leave in front of the CORINTHIA Hotel at 16:00 on 14th March and will return after the visit at approximately 20:00.